Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-25

spring round I'D.
Mr.. R. Mcfarland, the Walker, Mo
Hereford breeder, who has been in the
CITY for the past week with bunch Of
stock, returned home yesterday, leaving
his stock at Powell Bros stables.
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There passed through this city last
Tuesday five Hereford bull calves that
were being taken TO SIeneon Brothers
ranch on California creek. These calves
are intended for use on the ranches CT
this firm, and are as good as money could
bug. This county is filing up very rap
idly with fine stock. We have within the
county lines already the finest stock OF
different kinds that money can buy, and
can probably show the finest Herefords #
any county in the state Albany News.
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81. B Sanborn, owHer Of q splendid
horse ranch in the vicinity Of Whitesboro,
and of large cattle ranch in Oldham
county, was in the city yesterday and
purchased of Powell Bros. couple of
carloads Of northern raised, coming two
yesr-old high-grade Hereford bulls, for
April delivery, which he will put on his
Oldham county ranch. He is doing
good thing in the way OF
grading up his stock, having put several
hundred high-grade animals on the ranch
during the past year. Last week he
brought to his Whitesboro place 8 ship
ment of breeding drsft horses from Hi
nois which cost $ls,eOo.
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Mr.. Tom Andrews has returned from
trip to the Panhandle where he went to
get bunch of thirty horses, which he
brought in with him yesterday. His bus
iness took him all through Knox, Baylor,
Hardsman and Cottle counties, and he
says stock there is in very fair condition,
but the grass is very short. The
weather had been very favorable
up TO q week ago when they had heavy
fall Of snow all over the Panhandle, with
bard driving winds lasting forty-eight
hours, during which the cattle drifted al
over the plains. As the stock has pulled
through very well SO faI this year, how
ever, unless the remainder Of the winter
be unusually severe, they will come cut
in good fix in the spring.
Every farmer IS accustomed to salt his
cattle, but not every one knows why he
does it, unless II is because the stock ike
it. But moments thought will show
where the advantage lies. As soon as
food enters the stomach, says the
Rural Canadian, the natural tend
ency is 81 once for fermentation
to begin, and there arises q contest be-
tween this tendency and the digestive
powers. And il these powers are vlgor-
GUS and the process of fermentation is
checked or intercepted, then 40 bad re-
suits will follow, the food Will be digested
and salt will not be needed, though st any
time this will assist in the process OF
digestion. Salt keeps food from decsYing
until it can be digested and assimilated,
and prolongs the time to allow
the digestive organs to com
plete their work, and il fo0C
is taken In excess, as often
given frequently will be Of much adven-
tsge. And further, salt is q preventive
of worms. When fermentation sets in,
the conditions presented are favorable to
the existence of worms in the intestinal
canals, and may possibly be engendered
by the process. Consequently 1t should
be rule with stockmen to keep salt be-
fore their cattle or within reach when
they need it, and cattle will obey the de-
mends OF nature and supply the want as
needed.
So
Captain S. Hills, q Iarge rancn owner
in the Indian Territory, tells story Of
q remarkable change in the stockraising
of the southwest. "I have just returned
from trip through New NJ 1ico," said
Captain Hills, "where looked carefully
into the stock interests. All seem
to have made up their minds that
the day for large cattle ranges is over and
there is general inclination to split up
the crest herds snd make great number
OF ranches upon the ground formerly
occupied by one. The most notable
change, however, that fell under my OBJ
servatiop, is that from cattle raising to
horse raising. Dozens of rsnchmen have
sold their cattle and replaced them with
horses, and / expect to see the country in
the neighborhood of LIS Vegas one Of
the greatest horse districts in the west IN
q few years. The stock now in use Is
principally of the bronco variety, a cross
between the mustang and the
American horse. A systematic
effort is in progress TO cross this stocS
with Kentucky bloud with the expecta-
ton Of securing an animal better suited
TO the needs OF the country than any that
have hitherto been introduced. II is un-
derstood a. Las Vegss that Wilson
Waddington, New York capitalist,
who has large ranch interest
in the vicinity, is about to establish 6
horse ranch specially for breeding this
style Of animal with q view to supplying
the cavalry stationed in New Mexico and
Arizona.
A reporter yesterday approached
Colonel W. c. Young of the Llano Cattle
Company for an expression regarding the
fiatness of stock interests In Texas and
the country generally. "I'll tell you
what the matter is" he said. "The
stock business has been icarried on toe
much on the hurrah principle in
the past; and there YOU
hsye the whole matter. Elk
aggerated reports have been circulated
throughout the country regarding the
stock interests generally and private
- stockmen particularly, to the spoliation
of the nrst named by an uncomfortable
influx OF outside capital, and the last
named nv stockmen taking advantage OF
their irn,ted regulations in such way as
to destroy their credit. What we wan.
in the stock husipess is some means OF